New Maine laws taking effect July 1, 2026
7 laws take effect July 1, 2026.
Of the 971 bills enacted since 2025, 962 have an effective date and 9 don't yet (listed below). A law here takes effect that day by its main provisions; parts of a staggered act may take effect on other dates.
Updated Oct 31, 2026 at 11:25 a.m. EDT.
Healthcare (4)
LD 167 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
An Act to Provide 2 Hearing Aids to MaineCare Members with Diagnosed Hearing Loss
How we got this date
This Act takes effect July 1, 2026.
LD 1937 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
An Act to Require Hospitals and Hospital-affiliated Providers to Provide Financial Assistance Programs for Medical Care
How we got this date
This Act takes effect July 1, 2026.
LD 2123 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
Resolve, to Improve Dental Care Access by Modifying the MaineCare Reimbursement Methodology for the Provision of Certain Dental Services
How we got this date
The date of the act's main provisions (act).
this resolve applies retroactively to July 1, 2026.
Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
LD 93 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
An Act to Reduce Cost and Increase Access to Disease Prevention by Expanding the Universal Childhood Immunization Program to Include Adults
How we got this date
This Act takes effect July 1, 2026.
Taxes (2)
LD 305 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
An Act Regarding the Motor Vehicle Excise Tax Exemption for Leased Automobiles for Certain Veterans
How we got this date
this legislation takes effect July 1, 2026
LD 526 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
An Act to Reduce the Time Period for Challenging the Validity of a Property Tax Lien on Commercial Real Estate
How we got this date
The date of the act's main provisions (This subsection).
This subsection: This subsection applies to a tax lien recorded on commercial real estate after June 30, 2026.
Education (1)
LD 1887 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
Resolve, To Improve Air Quality and Ventilation in Newly Constructed Schools
How we got this date
The date of the act's main provisions (act).
These standards must apply to all newly constructed public schools and must apply no later than July 1, 2026.
Enacted, but not yet dated (9)
These laws' texts tie their dates to something outside the legislative record (Contingent), or not enough is recorded yet to give one (Unresolved). They may take effect July 1, 2026 too; the record doesn't say.
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- LD 1427ContingentAn Act Extending the Statute of Limitations on Criminal Actions Involving Aggravated Sex Traffickingapplies to aggravated sex trafficking committed on or after the Act's effective date or not yet time-barred under prior statute of limitations
- LD 1747UnresolvedAn Act to Repeal and Replace the Charter of the Yarmouth Water Districttwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- LD 1986UnresolvedAn Act to Fund Collective Bargaining Agreements with Judicial Branch Employeestwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- LD 293ContingentAn Act to Increase the Debt Limit of the Boothbay Region Water DistrictAcceptance of the debt limit proposal by a majority of the legal voters within the district voting at the referendum
- LD 3ContingentAn Act to Adopt Eastern Daylight Time Year-round Contingent on Federal ApprovalFulfillment of the condition in subsection 1 (while the State is observing eastern daylight time)
- LD 378UnresolvedAn Act to Clarify That Health Insurers Must Comply with Plan Sponsors' Statutory Rights to Audit Claims and Data Requests Related to Those Auditstwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- LD 529ContingentAn Act to Establish the Alamoosook Lake Watershed Management DistrictApproval by a majority of the legal voters of the Town of Orland voting at a referendum held after June 1, 2025 within 2 years after the Act's effective date
- LD 531UnresolvedAn Act to Establish the Toddy Pond Watershed Management Districttwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- LD 550UnresolvedAn Act to Support Outdoor, Agricultural-based and Hands-on Experiential Learning in Public Schoolstwo clauses set different dates for the same provision